Richard Joel is a native Angelino and the President and founder of 405 Productions Inc. He is an Emmy Nominated and Rose D’or award-winning, TV Creator/Writer/Executive Producer and an award-winning Film Producer. He has worked in all areas of production and development and brings a strong business and creative process to all sides of this business including scripted TV & film as well as the creation of original formats, competition & game shows.

Richard began his producing career with his first short film, “Foursome,” and his first feature, “Wild Heirs.” In 2003, he met the President of Wildrice Productions and was recruited for their unscripted development team. He quickly rose through the ranks to become Head of Alternative TV Development & Production. There, he created, developed and sold an array of projects to multiple cable networks. While still at Wildrice he created and sold an original game show format called, Heads or Tails, to Eyeworks USA, which aired in the UK during Primetime. For the next 3 years he served as Head of Alternative TV Development & Production for Muse Entertainment, USA.

Richard then founded 405 Productions Inc. Conceived as a boutique production house and development shingle by creating original formats, specializing in competition and game shows. Out of the gate, he co-created the hit CW game show and Rose D’or winner, “Oh Sit!,” where he served as Creator, Executive Producer and Writer. The format is currently selling worldwide. 405 Productions has created numerous original formats and then sold/partnered/produced on these formats.

He is quickly expanding 405 Productions Inc. and the Richard Joel brands with scripted and unscripted content for TV & Film domestically and internationally. On the scripted side he is currently working as an EP on an animated feature film in production with A list stars, recently co-produced a SYFY pilot, “99 Problems” written and brilliantly directed by Michael G. Kehoe, with the seasoned John T. Connor as DP and served as Showrunner/EP on a new digital series, “Before We Go,” He produced “Tainted Dreams,” a 2014, 2017 & 2018 Emmy Nominated series for “Best Digital Drama” series on Amazon, and Produced/Executive Produced “The Candle,” a multi-award winning (30 awards / 30 nominations) short horror film / feature-proof of concept, screening in more than 50 film festivals in 13 different countries. Lastly, and most importantly he is super excited and over the moon to be developing/pitching the bestselling sci-fi series of books, The Atlantis Grail for TV from the award winning author Vera Nazarian.

On the unscripted side he is currently partnered with A&E Studios International on a co-production of an original game show format for both Germany and Canada and he recently produced and wrote on the digital-series, “You’ve Been Had...Celebrity Edition!,” a Celebrity driven hidden camera prank show.

Brandy Stark is a Florida resident and a lifelong science fiction fan. She grew up on cartoons, comic books, and Star Trek which currently manifests in her Humanities teachings for various institutions of higher education. When existing in the space/time of Earth Prime, Dr. Stark creates hand-wrapped wire metal sculptures depicting creatures of fantasy. These have shown and won awards in numerous conventions, including San Diego Comic Con, World Fantasy Con, and Dragon*Con.

Adam Matalon is an award-winning showrunner, producer, director, writer, and filmmaker. He has worked across a broad spectrum of programming from scripted narrative film and TV to feature documentaries, TV specials, entertainment formats and unscripted programming.

A dual national of the UK/US he was born into a theatre family and spent formative years as a working actor in New York and London’s West End setting the stage for his strong storytelling instincts.

Starting in below the line TV production as a crew member he worked his way to becoming a valued DGA member and showrunner working on a variety of Emmy winning content including high profile kids series Sesame Street, Bear in The Big Blue House, The Book of Pooh Between the Lions as well as other diverse productions including: Whoopie, Martha Stewart, Emeril Live, The Naked Brothers Band American Pickers, Billy the Exterminator, Donnie Loves Jenny, Atlanta Plastic, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Chain Reaction and Top of the Pops.

His freshman documentary feature was the award winning Seasons in The Valley narrated by Elliot Gould. The film examines the social and economic impact of Jamaican migrant labor who undertake an annual northern migration through the governments H2A program and the effect it has had on communities in Jamaica.

His current feature documentary (Writer/Director/Producer) is in post-production. In the Shadow of the Flag charts a story of US military veterans finding home and tribe after war set against the backdrop of dance therapy and a movement piece they created in collaboration with LA Dance Company, Diavolo - Architecture in Motion. and produced through his own production shingle Chatsby Films.

Concurrently for the last 18 months he has been showrunning the revolutionary pre-IPO investment series Unicorn Hunters. which investigates tech startups and nanotechnologies in an effort to democratize early stage investment access and features such though leaders as Steve Wozniak and Rosie Rios.

Most recent narrative projects are producing the multi–Emmy nominated Series Tainted Dreams “Best Digital Drama” 2017 & 2018 and Adam wrote, directed, and produced A Boy a Man and a Kite. The film about a UK crown court child abuse case enjoyed great success, winning multiple “Best Short” awards and qualified for the 2020 Academy Awards.

Paul Woodson has narrated about 300 books, and is a SOVAS and Audiofile Earphones Award winner. His work spans all genres, from History to Romance to Fantasy, and his facility with accents has proved useful in narrating books with diverse and multi-cultural ensembles from across the globe. Among his many titles, he’s narrated the works of acclaimed Fantasy author Mercedes Lackey, bestselling Romance authors Melissa Foster and Keira Montclair, renowned classic Italian novelist Giuseppe Lampedusa, and Sci-Fi greats C.J. Cherryh & Harry Turtledove.

Vera Nazarian is the author of The Atlantis Grail series, historical (Renaissance) epic fantasy trilogy Cobweb Bride, and other science fiction and fantasy novels and short works.